M81 and the IFN in LRGB 28hrs total

[peter shah]

What a night last night...managed to grab enough to process this...although I will probably grab better red and green  subs. I really had to work hard to make it work...Surprisingly the IFN in the blue channel was the strongest...but the red frames were captured with variable conditions in between rain showers. Still not convinced there is much in the way of colour in the IFN itself....but I've come this far so I may as well try for some better Red and green data.
Total 28hours captured using 30min subs.
Thanks for looking

[NikolajSteinkohl]

Well, not that good ehh?

Who am I kidding, this is fantastic. One of the best pictures of M81 and M82 i have seen for sure. Still my favorite galaxies, as they were the first I ever observed 

[ultranova]

And worth every hour you have put into it, damn thats good,

so much going on, its a job to focus on one thing.

Well done Peter,

Paul

[ampleamp]

Last night really was excellent (shame about today!)

This is very good, excellent work as always Peter.

[Stephen Green]

 That is a great image 

  Stephen

[laser_jock99]

Super work.

[toxic]

So is this the mysterious dark matter the we ave been hearing aboot.

but you should have saved that for christmas with all them sparkly bits in it.

nice one peter great job.

[ollypenrice]

That's a very deep job on the Flux, Peter. 30 min subs in a fast astrograph is the way to go about it, all right. Excellent.

Olly

[Steve 1962]

Stunning Peter - love the colours and the sheer crispness of the image.

On Steve Mandel's webpage about the IFN - it says that  "The dust is scattering blue light and is fluorescing a broad red spectrum of light known as the Extended Red Emission (ERE) that adds an additional broad-band emission to the red part of the spectrum.  Therefore,  on color images there are both blue and red components creating beautiful and interesting images. "

A lot of his images are distinctly blue - so maybe waht you're getting is "right" - well, as "right" as anything in AP!!

Link to the IFN webpage: http://www.galaxyimages.com/UNP_IFNebula.html

Steve

[peter shah]

thanks everyone

Stunning Peter - love the colours and the sheer crispness of the image.

On Steve Mandel's webpage about the IFN - it says that  "The dust is scattering blue light and is fluorescing a broad red spectrum of light known as the Extended Red Emission (ERE) that adds an additional broad-band emission to the red part of the spectrum.  Therefore,  on color images there are both blue and red components creating beautiful and interesting images. "

A lot of his images are distinctly blue - so maybe waht you're getting is "right" - well, as "right" as anything in AP!!

Link to the IFN webpage: http://www.galaxyimages.com/UNP_IFNebula.html

Steve

I think in that case ...im not calling this one finished until I have better quality Red frames...just in case

[cfpendock]

Yes.  This is easily the best I have seen of this.  Are some of the stars just a tad red?  It's not a criticism, it is a question!

Chris 

[peter shah]

Yes.  This is easily the best I have seen of this.  Are some of the stars just a tad red?  It's not a criticism, it is a question!

Chris

i dont mind criticism......you are probably right i had to push the red channel fairly hard...so there will be another version of this when i have more red and possibly green

[morimarty]

Stunning capture Peter, and beautifully processed I love the colours!

[peter shah]

Stunning capture Peter, and beautifully processed I love the colours!

Thanks Martyn....I've been going over the colour data very carefully, I think the is more colour in the Flux than I first thought. In my process it looks quite blue and I can just see there is a slight redish-brown tint to parts of the flux. The weak signal in the red and green data is making it difficult to pull any meaningful colour out of the it...I need more!.....I've gone this far with it I'm going to keep plugging away at it...and get lots more.. .

[peter shah]

Just reworked the data pushed it so you can just see the colour coming through the IFN

[Beulah]

Superb, Peter, I have been staring at the mono one for days as I had made it the wallpaper on my desktop.

Interestingly enough, when you click on the last image, it looks more contrasty, which is much better.

[Christopher Davenport]

Wow, this is fantastic. Something to aspire to.

[brancusi]

A fabulous and wonderfully motivating image. 

[bluedandelion]

Excellent job, Peter.

Ajay

[mdstuart]

Lovely....what is the third galaxy in the view to the left?

[Stu]

Amazing image Peter!

Looks like the Galaxy is PGC 28731 according to SkySafari, Mag 15.65.

[mdstuart]

I see...another member of the M81 group....such a good picture.

[Guest]

I really like the associated patchy interstellar medium showing up in this - this is going to be my next target and it's great to see how it could look ....if I had a set up like yours lol!

David

[Tom OD]

Another lovely Shah image, you ve really pulled that IFN out.

[peter shah]

thanks you all ......as soon as the moon is out of the way ill be back on it